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Alexandra " Xie " Rhoda Kitchin (29 September 1864 – 6 April 1925) was a notable 'child-friend' and favourite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll ). She was the daughter of Rev. George William Kitchin (1827–1912), who was Dodgson's colleague at Christ Church, Oxford, [1] and later became Dean of Winchester and ...
Here, Alexandra ‘Xie’ Kitchin, his most frequent child sitter, poses in Chinese dress on a stack of tea chests. Albumen print Museum no. RPS.2247-2017 The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund
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With trunks full of toys and costumes from the Drury Lane Theatre, the "glass house" was a paradise for children. Xie (Alexandra) Kitchin, a beautiful and photogenic child, was Carroll's muse in the 1870s. Born in 1864, she was the daughter of George William Kitchin, a colleague and an old friend from Carroll's student days at Oxford.
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Alexandra "Xie" Rhoda Kitchin (29 September 1864 – 6 April 1925) was a notable 'child-friend' and favourite photographic subject of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). She was the daughter of Rev. George William Kitchin (1827–1912), who was Dodgson's colleague at Christ Church, Oxford, and later became Dean of Winchester and Dean of Durham, and his wife, Alice Maud Taylor, second ...
The model in this photograph, Alexandra “Xie” Kitchin, posed more than fifty times over eleven years, frequently for images inspired by literature. The title Carroll gave this work is the refrain of the poem The Lost Doll by the popular Victorian author Charles Kingsley.
Mar 16, 2018 · A young girl, Alexandra “Xie” Kitchin, fixes the viewer with her direct stare in an 1873 albumen print by Lewis Carroll, best known as the author of Alice in Wonderland. Xie’s father, a mathematician and classicist, was a close friend of Carroll’s at Oxford, but it is to her mother that the roots of this image can be traced.
On this particular Monday Alexandra Kitchin, daughter of the historian and student of Christ Church George William Kitchin, has already enjoyed a picnic of cakes and Bath buns in the Reverend Dodgson’s sitting room and a chance to play with all manner of mechanical toys emptied from the cupboard there. But the high-
